Chapter 7 I am willing to do anything for the general

When Dongshan, Kuaiji County, Shengzhou, people involuntarily recalled an idiom - Dongshan's comeback. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Xie An, a famous scholar in the world, was envied and excluded by villains in the court. In anger, he made the emperor demote him for a moment. In anger, Xie An resigned from his post and went to Dongshan, Kuaiji to live in seclusion, invited people to play chess, and became quiet. Xie An established Dongshan Academy and focused on cultivating his sons and nephews, among which Xie Xuan, Xie Daoyuan and other sons and nephews were all studying here.

Later, Fu Jian, Di Qin, led an army of 850,000 to invade the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The court remembered Xie An and decided to re-activate him. He sent personnel to Dongshan and appointed him as the commander-in-chief of the expedition. It was important for the prime minister to carry a boat to save the country. Xie An did not refuse. He returned to the court to dispatch troops and generals, rectify the army and punished clearly. The officers and soldiers were united and wanted to fight Fu Jianjiji to the death.

Of course, everyone knows what happened next. When the Feishui War broke out, Xie An was stationed in the middle, his nephew Xie Xuan personally came to the front line to command, and his brother Xie Shi was responsible for commanding the navy, defeating the Di Qin army, and achieving a famous record of winning with less and more in Chinese history.

As time goes by, Dongshan is still the same as Dongshan, but the Xie family in Chen County has long been yesterday's yellow flowers and prosperity is no longer there.

It is undeniable that the lean camel is bigger than the horse. Although the Xie family is no longer as good as the Xie family, which was the king of Sima at that time, the Xie family's heritage made the Xie family in Chenjun still the leading family in Jiangzuo's wealthy family.

At this time, Xie Hui, the head of the Xie family, was the chief minister of the Chen Dynasty, General Renwei, and the grandson of Xie Zhe, the chief secretary of the Situ Zuo Changshi, and the son of Xie Bing, the prefect of Guangling of the Sui Dynasty. Xie Hui was kind and generous, and helped the village, and was very famous.

Compared with the four seasons in Guanzhong, the winter is cold and summer is hot, and the weather in Shengzhou is simply as good as a paradise. There is no severe cold here in winter and no scorching summer. The land is fertile and crops can be ripened twice a year.

At this time, the Xie Family Dongshan Villa was like a flowing water and horses, and a large cart loaded with rice and grain. When we arrived in front of the door, after measuring the measuring container, we would not enter the granary of the Xie Family Courtyard at all, but sailed along the official road towards the Kuaiji Wharf.

Xie Hong, wearing a Taoist robe, looked at the white-haired Xie Hui with a panic look on his face and said, "Brother, you can think clearly. The Xie family has become the public enemy of the Guanzhong clan and the Shandong clan. Not to mention Chen Ying, even Your Majesty will be unable to protect and fully!"

When a grain merchant in Guanzhong is in a situation, it is to make huge profits. Now that Xie’s family’s export of grain to Guanzhong is to cut off the road to wealth, just like killing their parents, this hatred is irreconcilable.

Xie Hui shook her head and said, "Erlang, don't say anything. I have a son, Keer (Xie Yingdeng)!"

"I think Ke'er is as if he has already come out!" Xie Hong said anxiously: "But, brother, we need to save Ke'er. We Ke'er, we can think of other ways. Besides, Ke'er has not directly participated in the case of deposing the King of Qin to rebel!"

"Although he did not really participate, he was a general who deposed the King of Qin, and his career in this life was over!" Xie Hui said in an unquestionable tone: "If you can solve this problem with just 300,000 guan, would you lose money?"

Hearing this, Xie Hong was speechless.

Although Xie Hui was so righteous, in fact, this transaction also had huge benefits, which forced him to be moved.

After all, the food in Jiangnan was as cheap as earth. Although Fu Gongyou rebelled, it took only three months from rebellion to pacification. Although there was an impact, it was limited. The price of food in Jiangnan was three to five cents of rice, which was not an exaggeration to describe it as cheap as earth. Xie Hui used the price of rice of six cents of rice and 300,000 guan to buy 5 million stones of rice, but five million stones of grain was transported to Guanzhong, and Chen Yinghui bought all of them at ten cents of rice.

Without the Grand Canal built by Yang Guang, it would be almost impossible to return to Chang'an. It would take three months at the earliest. However, now transporting from the Grand Canal can save 99% of the loss, and the consumption on the road is less than one percent. In other words, if five million stones of grain enter Guanzhong, about 300,000 stones can be consumed on the road.

But about ten thousand guan, which means that the five million guan of grain was in and out, Xie Hui had no loss and made nearly two hundred thousand guan.

This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that they are on Chen Ying's line, which means entering the emperor's vision.

The survival of aristocratic families is simply about engaging in politics and then protecting their servants and engaging in business. Officials serve as the protection umbrella of business and making money in business and operating official umbrellas. Both are indispensable.

But what is very embarrassing about the Xie family in Chen County is that Jiangnan is no longer the political center of the court. Although the Chen Yingxie family has tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, the annual income is only more than 10,000 guan. Although more than 10,000 guan is a lot, the key is that the children of the Xie family have a total of more than 10,000 guan, and this income cannot be maintained at all.

As the head of the Xie family in Chen County, Xie Hui has been relying on the wealth of his ancestors to rely on his ancestors to rely on his ancestors. He wanted to sell grain as a grain vendor, but he was suffering from the lack of a grain market and was angry that he would rashly transport grain into Guanzhong. The Xie family in Chen County naturally did not have a grain source and distribution center. The seventy-two counties in Xuyang were actually all of the spheres of influence of the eight major families in Jiangzuo.

The key is that this place is no longer the Southern Dynasties. There is no 500,000 army of the imperial court, and there are millions of overseas Chinese people.

At this time, the eight counties and seventy-two counties in Xuyang became pure grain production sites. Although there was a lot of grain here, it could not be transported out for sale.

Anyway, the decline of the Xie family in Chen County has become a fact. If it is not changed, the industries left by these ancestors may not be preserved in thirty or fifty years, and there is no worse result than this.

Xie Hui did not look at the old age, but his heart was not old, so he decided to take a risk.

As early as two months ago, when Guanzhong Food and Food Merchants were secretly making plans, Chen Ying had already discovered the clues. For people like Chen Ying, market rules have already penetrated into the bones. Only things that violate market rules will Chen Ying definitely not ignore them.

Chen Ying secretly sent an investigation, and then he found that someone was working on the Guanzhong grain market. Although he did not find out who was the master behind the scenes, after the Turkic movements, Chen Ying was shocked to find that the master behind the scenes was definitely not as simple as huge profits of food.

Goguryeo frequently mobilized troops in Liaodong, and the Eastern Turks penetrated unscrupulously along the border of Hexi to Hebei, which made Chen Ying smell the smell of conspiracy in the air in Guanzhong.

However, Chen Ying could not report to Li Jiancheng based on his imagination, but at this time, Chen Ying decided to let them speculate on rice without credit.

In order to encourage poor people to reclaim wasteland and buy land, the Datang Tongli Money House issued loans to the public through poverty alleviation loans, allowing the people to have money to purchase agricultural tools, ploughing utensils, plowing oxen and seeds. When these farmers gained benefits, they deducted necessary rations and used all the excess grain to repay their debts. The Henan Prefecture Branch alone received a loan of about two million stones of grain.

If there was no such food crisis in Guanzhong, Chen Ying would have had a headache for these grains. The Tang Dynasty Tongli Money House was not a branch in Henan, but also Hebei, Hedong and Bashu. In addition to the Western Regions, these money houses had harvested about 5 million stones of grain in total.

Just to store these grains, Chen Ying built thousands of cellars in various places, and the workers he hired cost tens of thousands of tentatively tens of thousands of tentatives every year.

Before the food crisis broke out, Chen Ying had actually started to transport grain secretly towards Guanzhong, but he did not enter Guanzhong directly. Most of the grains in Henan Prefecture were concentrated in Taolin. In the abandoned mining area under Chen Ying's name, the grains in Hedong were concentrated in Longmen, which were only far from Guanzhong. The grains in Bashu were as high as one million stones. However, Chen Ying was not going to use these grains and was preparing to directly brew wine. Later Luzhou Laojiao has always been Chen Ying's favorite. In this time and space, he was preparing to build his own Luzhou Laojiao in Luzhou.

Chen Ying originally wanted to take advantage of the food crisis in Guanzhong to mobilize some people to migrate, but it was a pity that Wei Zheng rejected Chen Ying's proposal on the grounds that Guanzhong was the foundation of the world. Li Jiancheng reluctantly ordered the migration of 50,000 households out of Guanzhong. However, 50,000 households and the people in Guanzhong were actually unable to control the overall situation.

Chen Ying not only used the Tang Dynasty Tongli Money Bank to purchase grain in Henan, but also purchased grain in Hebei. The total amount of these grains exceeded 5 million stones, plus the five million stones raised by Xie Hui in Jiangnan, a total of 10 million stones of grain. In fact, Chen Ying once made a calculation that to solve the food crisis in Guanzhong, eight million stones would be enough.

Of course, some of the trip will be consumed.

Chen Ying had to make a plan, and the biggest problem was that these grains were not small. When transporting them from Hebei, Henan, Guanzhong, and Bashu to Guanzhong, it was easy to be discovered by grain merchants in Guanzhong. Therefore, in order to cover up and hide the truth, Chen Ying asked Li Jiancheng to order the twelve guards to adjust defenses, and all of these grains were escorted by the army along the way.

In this way, although there will be records of large-scale ships or vehicles, the real reason cannot be found out.

In order to ensure that, Chen Ying adopted the plan of mixing fish eyes with pearls.

Thousands of four-wheeled carriages marched along the official road of Tongguan toward Guanzhong. A lieutenant rode on the horse and shouted: "Your Majesty, you are saved, Your Majesty has transferred food from Henan Prefecture to the Pass!"

When the people heard this news, they welcomed each other and looked forward to it.

As the saying goes, some people are happy and some are worried.

The grain traders were shocked when they received the news. They quickly sent people to pretend to be transporting Lifu, approached the grain truck, and secretly checked the grain truck, but found that the so-called grain trucks were actually just the top layer of grain, and all the bottom was sand and gravel.

The grain merchants laughed.

Laugh Chen Ying deserves to be an outstanding general of the Tang Dynasty and has applied military tactics to the extreme.

Chang'an City and major official warehouses still offer grain at a fair price, but the price of grain has risen at a price of 5 cents a day.

In a luxurious carriage, the window was closed, and suddenly a Yuan escort walked to the carriage and bowed and said, "Report to the head of the meeting, I have discovered it!"

A hoarse voice came from the carriage: "Say!"

Yuan's entourage bowed and said, "Among those who bought grain, they found the servants of the King of Huai'an and the disciples of Duke Liang."

An unscrupulous voice came from the carriage: "Chen Ying'er only has this little left to help. She goes in and out with her left hand. I want to see how much money he has to pay."

...

Chenjiabao in Qinglin, Chang'an, has been extremely busy these days, and he goes out early and returns late every day. When Chen Ying drags his tired body back, he finds that there is no one in the backyard.

Chen Ying shouted: "Come here!"

After a while, a servant bowed in and said, "What are the instructions for the prince-consort!"

Chen Ying asked, "Where are the princesses and the others?"

The servant bowed and replied, "Reported to the prince-consort, the wife of Duke Ying Guo called on all noble relatives and ladies to hold a banquet in Chang'an. The princess went to Duke Ying Guo's mansion to attend the banquet. I guess she would not come back today!"

Chen Ying waved his hand.

The servant retreated.

However, the servant had just arrived at the door and walked back again.

Chen Ying looked up and asked, "What's the matter?"

The servant said carefully: "Report to the prince-consort... Chang... Changsun's request to see you!"

Chen Ying thought for a while and said, "Let her come in!"

In fact, Chen Ying didn't have to know Changsun Wugui's purpose. She wanted to rescue Changsun Wuji.

But, this idea is really naive.

Although it has been more than three months since the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Changsun Wuji confessed too many incredible crimes under the interrogation of Dai Jia, the cold-faced King of Hell in the Heavenly Prison of Dali Temple, including the killing of Dou Jiande, the gathering of Hebei clans to rebel, and Liu Shishan swept across Hebei for three months, and the forced rebellion of the Jianghuai army under Du Fuwei, all of which were Changsun Wuji and Du Yan.

The key is that Du Yan and Changsun Wuji are both smart people and they all know the seriousness of this fate. In prison, they shirked each other and exposed each other, including the Yang Wengan Rebellion, all exposed.

In fact, the two of them had not been punished yet and basically revealed the crime. However, Changsun Wuji confessed that Du Yan was the mastermind, while Du Yan confessed that Changsun Wuji was the mastermind.

Now these evidences of crimes are basically verified. Not to mention Chen Ying, even Li Jiancheng could not pardon the two of them. Their intentions were too poisonous, and the civil and military officials in the court were so poisonous that they dared to be ministers with them?

Sure enough, it didn't look as Chen Ying expected.

Changsun Wugui entered the small hall with tears on his face. He knelt on the ground with a pounce on Chen Ying: "General Chen, please raise your hands and save your brother!"

Chen Ying sighed and said, "Changsun, please get up!"

Changsun Wugui became a scoundrel for Chen Ying, and she choked and said, "If the general does not agree to help, I would rather kneel down here to die!"

"If I had known this, why should I have been there!" Chen Ying smiled bitterly and said, "Don't you really know what Changsun Wuji did?"

Changsun Wugui was stunned and lowered his head and said, "I really don't know!"

Chen Ying said with emotion: "It's okay to know or not, it doesn't matter. Changsun Wuji took it upon himself. There are not 100,000 people who died at his hands, and there are 80,000. If he doesn't die, how can those innocent souls be peaceful?"

In fact, Chen Ying did not want to let go of Changsun Wuji and Du Yan. After all, Qin King Li Shimin fought with Li Jiancheng for so long, and too many people died, including Yang Wengan, Qiaogongshan, Hebei, and Jianghuai.

Changsun Wugui gritted his teeth, with a faint entanglement and struggle in his eyes: "General Chen, as long as you are willing to rescue your brother, I am willing to do anything for the General!"

Changsun Wugui was particularly serious about the word "anything".

Chen Ying heard this and said with a stern face: "Changsun, don't do this, please go back!"

Changsun Wugui said calmly: "General, Wugui has been dependent on his brother since childhood. You can save His Majesty and pardon Fang Xuanling and Duan Zhixuan, or you can not pursue Du Keming's family. Can't you talk to your brother in a different way?"

Looking at Changsun Wugui's pear blossoms in the rain, he was pitiful.

Chen Ying was actually the most shameful woman to cry, and he almost agreed.

However, Chen Ying did not want to make Li Jian difficult.

After all, the East Palace was too much harmed by Changsun Wuji. At present, the old ministers of the East Palace needed a breakthrough to vent their resentment. Wei Ting's most important responsibility now is to pursue Li Shimin. However, Li Shimin has left the Central Plains and headed to the Fusang Continent, and Wei Ting is destined to fail.

It is only a matter of time before Changsun Wuji is liquidated. Although Chen Ying sometimes has a bodhisattva's heart, he will definitely not be a bad person.

Chen Ying turned around and refused to look at Changsun Wugui.
To be continued...